Website language and theme

One of my internet friend is want to open a website.
He needs a social networking site, a basic social networking site.
He asked what would be better theme to devlop the site.
He also asked me, what would be better Joomla,.net,php etc.
Actually I have no proper idea in this topic.
Can anyone help me to get a better solution?

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